Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

Nov
23

Illustration Friday: Music

Posted in Art |

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The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
‘O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!’

The Owl and the Pussycat, by Edward Lear

‘Music’ was a difficult topic for me, simply because it gave me so many ideas that I don’t have the skills to draw! Failed attempts include a Kanye West caricature, belly dancer and the music accompaniment for a Chinese lion dance. I did a similar sketch to this final one for today’s lunchdoodle topic – ‘boat’, and decided to rework it to include the details I’d left out due to only half remembering the rhyme.

Nov
20

Three Grey Elephants… on a tee?

Posted in Art, Design |

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I decided to submit my last IF illustration to Threadless! This is my first time submitting, so please be gentle :) I’m not too hopeful considering the incredible work that tends to get through, but it would be really wonderful to see my design on a t-shirt!

For those not familiar with Threadless, artists and designers can submit artwork to the website which is then voted on by the public for the next 7 days. The Threadless staff then look at the top designs and choose some for printing. I’m a big fan, but never really had the courage to put up a design for voting until now. So you see, if there’s enough of a positive response to my design it could go through, which is why it would really really help me if you go and vote it up. Please?

Three Grey Elephants - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More

Nov
17

Illustration Friday: Unbalanced

Posted in Art, Design |

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Three grey elephants balancing
Step by step on a piece of string
Thought it was such a wonderful stunt
They called for another elephant!

I suppose this isn’t perfectly to theme because they are balancing quite nicely so far… but will it last?

Illustration done for this week’s Illustration Friday topic: unbalanced. The elephants were done in Illustrator and put together with textures in Photoshop. Wall texture from cgtextures.com. This song is very nostalgic for me, I used to love the shadow puppet version on Playschool!